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Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meet the Weiss family, who are making their way in Hollywood rife with money, fame, envy, and relentless hauntings. Stafford Weiss is a famed TV self-help therapist with an A-list celebrity clientele. Meanwhile, Cristina Weiss has her work cut out managing the career of their disaffected child-star son, Benjie, a fresh graduate of rehab at age thirteen. Yet unbeknownst to them, another member of the Weiss family has arrived in town, mysteriously scarred...
3) Silent movie
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Brooks stars as a has-been movie director who wants to make a come-back and save his studio from being taken over by a conglomerate.
4) Just a dream
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Henry is a boy from a small town in the middle of nowhere. A big picture studio comes to town, stirring hope and countless dreams.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Film based on the McCarthy witchhunts of the 1950's, Guilty by Suspicion tells the story of the destruction of the career of a director. All he has to do to revive his stalled career is testify against friends who are suspected of being Communists.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Based on the novel by Carrie Fisher about her life in the Hollywood fast lane. Suzanne Vale is a wise-cracking, vulnerable actress determined to jump start her failing career. Her mother, an aging movie star, is the definitive portrait of Hollywood's gutsy glamour queens and, of course, offers her daughter only razor sharp humor and searing honesty.
Publisher
Koch Lorber
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
Emile and Patricia stumble across each other in an abandoned TV studio. They meet for 7 nights to carry out a 3-year plan to create a new cinema. The plan results in a parade of sounds and images, while Emile, Patricia, and Godard (as the narrator) comment on the film which is being created, taken apart, and assembled in front of the viewer.
Series
W.C. Fields comedy collection volume 2
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
W.C. Fields' last starring role in a feature-length film consists mainly of a series of flashbacks-- a number of disjointed, funny and bizarre scenes spoofing his own cinematic career, Hollywood and the filmmaking industry.
Publisher
Disney DVD
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Hollywood's biggest star stood just three feet tall and her name was Shirley. This movie is based on the early career years of Shirley Temple, child star. Including the ups and downs of her career and the influence her parents had on her income.
10) The artist
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1927, George Valentin is a silent movie superstar. However, the advent of the talkies will kill his career and he will sink into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller, it seems the sky's the limit as major movie stardom awaits. Though their careers are taking different paths their destinies will become entwined.
12) I'll do anything
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
A talented but unemployed actor (Nolte) unexpectedly gains custody of his six-year-old daughter (Wright).
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
The leading man has just had a disastrous one-night stand with the leading lady. The cinematographer is breaking up with the assistant director. The director's mother has wandered onto the set and the dwarf hired for the dream sequence has an attitude.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Faye and Ward live through enough ups and downs for several lifetimes. A whilrwind courtship leads to a comfortable life fueled by Ward's family fortune. As the fortune vanishes, Ward's drinking and cheating compel Faye to throw him out.
15) The big knife
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Charles Castle is a Hollywood actor whose career needs to rebound after several flops. When he sees his marriage and career crumbling before him, it's all he can do to keep his spirits up and his wits about him. At this point in his life, the last thing he needs is more headaches. And then along comes a blackmailer, who threatens to push Castle's sanity over the edge.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
The true story of how Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa allowed a Hollywood crew to film him in battle, altering the course of film and military history in the process. Early movie giants D.W. Griffin and Harry Aiken send Frank Thayer to Mexico to persuade the cash-strapped, publicity-hungry Villa to let them film his revolution. Stepping into the literal cross fire, Thayer's crew risk their lives in the mingling of fiction and reality. The two make...
17) The stunt man
Publisher
Severin Films
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
A mysterious fugitive stumbles onto a movie set where a flamboyant director turns him into a stunt man.
18) The star
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A fading movie star is convinced that she needs only one good picture to reestablish her popularity and fortune.
19) Bombshell
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
p2011.
Language
English
Description
Lola, whose life is a dizzy whirlpool of studio expectations, adoring fans, familial leeches and most of all, a firecracker of a freewheeling press agent who'd do handsprings through a minefield if it would keep Lola's name in the tabloids. But Lola is ready to provide a final headline herself. She's quitting the biz. Leaving. Abandoning the sham and the glam for the pitter-patter of tiny feet.
20) State & Main
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
In order to save money on production costs, a movie production crew moves into a small town in Vermont. The crew soon discovers that their much needed "prop" has burned down, the star can't keep his pants zipped, the starlet won't take off her top and the locals want a piece of the action.
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